CHUKWUEMEKA OHANAEMERE aka ODUMEJE Bio, Life style and net Worth

Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere alias Odumeje is a controversial spiritual figure who is always in the news for weird, wrong reasons. His approach to the things of God, particularly on deliverance and healing sessions beg questions as to how he has remained unchecked despite the many inconvenient things he does. In an era where there are incessant questions into the affairs of African and Nigerian pastors, particularly on their ‘lust for tithes and offering’, according to Daddy Freeze. It remains to be seen whether or not the Christian body (CAN) or Nigerian authorities would beam their lights in the direction of Odumeje.

EARLY LIFE AND CAREER

Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere alias Odumeje ‘The Lion’ (born September 9) is an Anambra-based controversial and radical Nigerian pastor, prophet, founder and the president of Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention and Deliverance Ministry inc., a.k.a the Land of Freedom, situated in Onitsha, Anambra, South East, Nigeria. Emeka Odumeje has often been criticized and is always in the news for very wrong reasons, owing to his lifestyle, healing, and deliverance approach which majorly involves slamming or throwing people on empty chairs like WWE superstars would their opponents.

Ohanaemere is the 3rd in the family of six children. He was born into the family of Mr. and Mrs. Pius Ohanaemere of Orsu Ihete Ukwa, in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State, South East of Nigeria. He is a passionate lover of music and football so much that he aspired to be either a musical or football legend. He proceeded to Providence Secondary School after his nursery and primary education at Nweje, in a town in Anambra. He had wanted to further his educational career but could not as a result of financial difficulty being faced by his mother who was a mere petty trader at Upper Iweka, Lagos park. Ohanaemere resorted to leather business, where he served as an apprentice.

While struggling to survive, his mother had a vision of his son becoming a great prophet of God, a course she relentlessly backed up with prayers and fasting, for the divine arrest of her son. Shortly after, Ohanaemere became a laughing stock among his peers after the story of his revelation got to them. In the year 2000, he quit the leather business, which he had been doing for evangelism and launched out into full ministerial work. Despite going into full ministerial work, he found life difficult as his mother remained his financial strength.

CONTROVERSIES

Since his emergence as a pastor, Emeka Odumeje has courted countless controversies and has shot up as one of the most controversial pastors in Nigeria. His odd miracle sessions involve him lifting members of his congregation and throwing them at empty chairs. He has since been dubbed as a ‘Smack Down Pastor’ by many who consider his moves synonymous to WWE Superstar, Brock Lesnar’s and John Cena’s. During his WWE sessions, he is often being referred to as the ‘heavyweight servant of the Most High‘. Besides being a WWE wannabe, Odumeje has been accused of staging miracles, one of which involves raising the dead in his church, an event that was captured on camera. The same applies to other miracle sessions he has conducted.

For a supposed man of God, Emeka Odumeje has been seen dancing to secular songs severally while spraying wads of Dollars. It is believed that the pastor is a close friend of Nollywood actor, Zubby Michael, as both have been seen dancing ‘Zanku’, a dance move invented by Nigerian musician, Zlatan. In another time, he was seen dancing to ‘One More Night’ by Peter Okoye, of the defunct P-Square group, now referred to as ‘Mr. P’, with wads of cash during his birthday during a church service on Sunday! In October 2019, Emeka Odumeje’s followers in Indonesia, numbering about 80 Nigerians were deported by the Indonesian government for publicly spraying the pastor on the altar while on a visit to Jakarta, the capital of the South East Asian country.

EMEKA ODUMEJE FAMILY

Pastor Odumeje is married and has four children with his wife; two boys and two girls.

EMEKA ODUMEJE NET WORTH

Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere aka Odumeje ‘The Lion’ estimated net worth is N200 million.

FACTS ABOUT BRAMHANANDAM KANNEGANTI

PERSONAL LIFE

Brahmanandam was born in Sattenapalli, Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh. Prior to films, he was a Telugu lecturer in Attili, a town in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. Bramhanandam married Lakshmi and has two sons, Raja Gautam and Siddarth. He became a grandfather in 2017 with the birth of Raja Gautam's son. On 14 January 2019, Brahmanandam underwent a successful heart bypass surgery at Asian Heart Institute (AHI) in Mumbai. He is one of the highest paid actors in comic genre. He is called as comedy king of Tollywood. He has already grabbed many prestigious awards and honours for his excellent work in the industry. He also holds a Guinness World of Record for most screen credits. He had delivered more than thousands of movie till date. Born in a village in Guntur district, he pursued his master degree in Telugu and then started his career as a lecturer. He worked at Attili, which is a town in West Godavari district. He used to perform in the inter-college competition which helped him in developing his expression and comic abilities. Director Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry was the one who supported him and played a major role in his entry in the movie industry. He started his career in films with a movie 'Chantabbai' in 1986. He impressed his audience with his satire and physical comedy. After his first movie, he never looked back and went on delivering a number of successful movies.  

BRAMHANANDAM FAMILY

He was born to Kanneganti Lakshmi Narsamma and Kanneganti Nagalingachari. He married Lakshmi Kanneganti and the couple has 2 sons including Siddharth Kanneganti and Raja Gautam Kanneganti.

FACTS ABOUT BRAMHANANDAM

* Rekha is Brahmanandam’s Favorite actress.

* Amitabh Bachchan is his Favorite actor.

* His Favorite color is White.

Reading, Writing, and Painting are his Favorite hobbies.

* Sambhar, Kheer, and Medu Vada are his favorite food.

* He is one of the highest paid comedians in India.

* The comedian king holds a Guinness world record for most number of screen credit for a living actor.

* The comedy king of Tollywood likes to make sculptures in his free time.

* Brahmanandam is also known for his cooking skills.The Tollywood stars like Junior NTR and Ram Charan are a great fan of the food that he prepares.

* The actor doesn’t go out after 7 pm. He prefers to stay at home and spend time with his family.

* Before coming into Tollywood, Brahmanandam was a professor in a private college in Athili, West Godavari District.* Brahmanand is the only actor who has done 1000 movies in a career span of 28 years.

* The role of Pujari and Shastri has made him popular in the Tollywood cinema.

* His best works till date are Khan Dada From Money, Michael Jackson from Anaganaga O Raju, Brahmi From Pokiri, Aha Na Pellanta, Chari From Adhurs, Yamaleela, Sandade Sandadi, Babai Hotel or more.

* In 2009, he was honored with Padma Shri award for his contribution to Indian Cinema.

He charges 1 crore approx. per movie.

NET WORTH

He was estimated and valued at $50 million (#19,475,000,000.00)

Brahmanandam Controversies

The star is in the lights for few of the negative controversies after him; The High court ordered him to return the Padma Shri award for misusing the honorary title. The reason for the controversy was that they used the title ‘Padma Shri’ before their name to promote the movie ‘Denikaina Ready’ ( “Ready for Anything”, produced by Mohan Babu). He has attitude problem and doesn’t behave well with his junior co-stars. Tollywood actress Hema once said in an Interview, “ I have lost offers from directors and producers who roped me in their movies. Several directors told me that actor Brahmanandam didn’t want to act with me and asked to replace me with another actor”.

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BELLO MASABA BIDA, The man that controls 84 wives and 203 children and still living in PEACE. - MO Akande

Muhammadu Bello Abubahkar Masaba Bida also known as Mohammed Bello Abubakar (28 January 1924 – 28 January 2017) was born in Nigeria. Masaba is known for having stirred up controversy in his hometown Bida, Niger State due to his extensive polygamy, and for being outspoken, he was uncharged under Sharia law and sent to prison in 2008 for refusing to divorce 82 of his wives. Islam limits the number of wives a Muslim man can have to four, mandating they must be all treated equally. He married 120 wives, divorced 10, and fathered 203 children. At the time of his death in 2017, seven (7) out of his wives were believed to be pregnant.

Masaba was as a teacher and Imam. He lived in an entire apartment block with his family. Masaba claimed that he never pursued his wives, and that he was sought by them due to his reputation as a healer. Most of his wives were younger than 30 years of age, and a few younger than his elder children. In interviews with Al Jazeera English, his wives claimed that he was a good husband and father.

INTERPRETATION OF THE QURAN ON POLYGAMY 'S MARRIAGE

The Quran states that a man may marry up to four wives mandating they must be all treated equally. Noble Verse 4:3 of the Holy Quran “If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice.” Masaba claimed that when the Quran set a law, it must also set a punishment for offenders, and no punishment was given for this offense. 

During a prison interview, Masaba told The Christian Science Monitor:

"If God permits me, I will marry more than 86 wives. A normal human being could not marry 86 – but I can only by the grace of God, I married 86 women and there is peace in the house – if there is peace, how can this be wrong?"

SURVIVAL OF THE HOUSEHOLD

No work

Mr. Bello Abubakar and his wives do not work and he has no visible means of supporting such a large family. He kept silence on how he makes enough money to pay for the huge cost of feeding and clothing so many people. Every mealtime they cook three 12kg bags of rice which all adds up to $915 (£457) every day. “It's all from God,” he says. Other residents of Bida, the village where he lives in the northern Nigerian state, say they do not know how he supports the family. According to one of his wives, Mr. Bello Abubakar sometimes asks his children to go and beg for 200 naira ($1.69, £0.87), which if they all did would bring in about #113,100 ($290). Most of his wives live in a squalid, unfinished house in Bida; others live in his house in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital. He refuses to allow any of his family or other devotees to take medicine and says he does not believe that malaria exists.

INTERROGATIONS AND TRIALS

After the death pronouncement on him by the Islamic group, Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI), the Bida Emirate Council and an assembly of Islamic leaders invited Masaba for interrogation. Deliberations were given in Etsu Nupe's palace Bida and the Etsu Nupe of Bida, Alhaji Yahya Abubakar read out a verdict saying that Masaba should divorce 82 of the 86 wives within 48 hours or leave the entire Nupe Kingdom as his safety could not be guaranteed within the kingdom. At the expiration of the ultimatum, Masaba refused to divorce any of his wives and denied ever promising this.

In 2008 Bello was arrested by Islamic authorities and tried before a Sharia court. Before his trial at the Sharia court, Police in Niger State gave him a clean bill, as the state command declared that nothing incriminating was found in his house. The leader of the police team, that arrested the Islamic cleric in Bida before 27 September 2008, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr John Olayemi declared:

"We found nothing incriminating in his house. There was no knife, no pistol or skull in his house when we went to invite him to the headquarters for a chat." Olayemi explained that the command of arresting Masaba acted on an instrument of Upper Sharia Court. 

LIFE IN PRISON

In October 6, 2008, while in detention in Minna Prison, an Upper Sharia Court Judge in Minna, Alhaji Abdulmalik Imam, transferred Masaba's case to a Chief Magistrate's Court in Minna after admitting lacking jurisdiction. Masaba was still remanded in prison custody at the instance of the Sharia Court.

Thousands of protestors gathered to protest against his actions, and claimed that if he were released, they would not allow him to return to his home. His wives announced their outrage at his arrest. Due to his persistent refusal to divorce 82 of his wives during his trial, he was sentenced to death. The sentence was lifted in early September 2008. Masaba still faced eviction from his home. The case was reported globally and throughout Nigeria, angering many Nigerian Muslims.

Following the case, Masaba told the BBC:

"A man with ten wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them," 

RELEASE

On 12 November 2008, a Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja ordered the release of Masaba from detention in Minna Prison with immediate effect. The trial high court judge, Justice G.O. Kolawole attached no condition to his release. The judge also ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro, to ensure the protection of Masaba's fundamental rights to life, liberty and privacy, as enshrined in the 1999 constitution of Nigeria, through the Niger State Commissioner of Police. Masaba returned to his hometown, Bida, on 13 November 2008.

In July 2011,'Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, the governor of Niger State said "though we have Sharia in place in the state, but we have no law to pin him down". Niger State government's effort to prosecute Masaba, were unsuccessful because of legal lacuna. The Speaker of Niger State House of Assembly, Barrister Adamu Usman, disclosed that various attempts to prosecute Masaba ran into hitches because there was no provision in the law of the state to effect his prosecution.

Barrister Adamu Usman said:

"As Attorney General then I personally appeared before Sharia court, Minna, as prosecutor to prosecute the man but later discovered that Sharia courts in Niger State cannot deal with the case. No provision made in Penal code C.P.C or Sharia administration of Justice law to deal with such cases."

APPEARANCE ON MEDIA

Masaba is frequently depicted by the media as "the man with 86 wives." Contrary to some media reports, that Masaba divorced 82 out of his 86 wives, he refused to divorce any of his wives. Recently Masaba has reappeared in articles concerning an alleged plot to disenfranchise his family. Members of his family were prevented by thugs from registering to vote. Nine members of the Masaba family were injured by thugs whenever they attempted to register to vote.

After a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja ordered the release of Masaba from detention, he had 18 more children, having a total of 138 . Masaba came into limelight with another super polygamist, Ziona Chana of India in 2011. As of May 2011, Masaba had 89 wives and 133 children while India's Ziona Chana had 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren.

In June 2012, Masaba had an interview, he said:

"Large number of wives? I only have 97 wives. I am still going to marry more. I will keep marrying them for as long I am alive. Whoever is fighting me because of my wives or love life. Such an individual has missed it. Left for me, I would have married maybe two wives, but what I am doing is divine. It is an assignment and I will keep marrying till the end of time. I just want to advise those fighting against the number of my wives to stop because such people are waging war against God, their creator."

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